Lüting zhi jian chuan ben shu mu 郘亭知見傳本書目 [List of Surviving Editions Known to &...
16 juan in six vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, stitched as issued. [Shanghai]: from the pillar: “Guo xue fu lun she,” n.d. [but ca. 1912-30].
So-called “enumerative bibliography” (mulu xue 目錄學) had existed in China since ancient times, with the “treatise on literature” (yiwen zhi 藝文志) in the Book of Han forming the canonical example. In late imperial China, with its advanced print culture and traditions of book collecting and scholarship, enumerative bibliography was widely practiced. Our book is a work in this genre.
Mo (1811-71), was a bibliographer, bibliophile, poet, and calligrapher. His affiliation with the publishing house Jinling... More